and all
∞
5.9
- idiom
- Informal
:
y todo lo demás
- The classes merged in fourth grade, and all participants completed sixth grade in 1963.
- any and all
- and all the rest
- and all things
But the students would chitchat and all that, and they were afraid.
- But the students would chitchat and all that, and they were afraid.
- He's like for this beautiful meal and all this beautiful food.
- Please Get Me Out to visit any and all casting directors.
- It's supposed to add shine and detangle and all that great stuff.
- She's a admirer of birds and all things avian.
- You're talking about like the ChatGPT and all that stuff, ChatGPT.
- They kids stealing your money and all that betrayal.
Examples
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I still have all my fingers and all my face and everything.
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Focusing on the actual landscape and all relevant stakeholders offers a useful invitation to dialogue.
Academic text (1999) -
In this system, a teacher and all of his or her students are in school.
Academic text (1990) -
Almost all healthy people look alike and all sick people look different.
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And all family members must participate.
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Each of the ten can stand on its own merit, and all are equally important.
Academic text (1999) -
They invested their real, actual money and all of that money is now gone.
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The cultural fusion is woven into life in the city and all of southern Arizona.
Academic text (2011) -
Subjects averaged 7 + 4 years since injury, and all had passed medical screening tests.
Academic text (1991) -
We went to the park, and all the children had so much fun playing together.
Synonyms
11
3.5
Things or people similar to those just mentioned
6
7.7
Other similar things not mentioned
1
7.9
Other similar things you could mention
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'including everyone/everything mentioned' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'and' (addition) with 'all' (the whole group); the phrase is essentially a reduced form of 'and all of them/things'. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary coordination semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
And all may come from people ending a list with the words and and all as a quick way to include everything they just named. That's why and all now means 'including everyone or everything mentioned'.